Before pregnancy i had them every period. Pregnancy fixed them though so they must have been hormonal.

Stress and exhaustion cause aura now; my aura mimics a temporal lobe seizure (uncontrollable deja vu and short term memory/language loss). As soon as I feel that coming I leave work as it means I have reached my limit for stress.

I suffer with Mirgrains and cluster headaches, they are awful things. Triggers for me include not enough sleep, stress and the weather! Esp when its humid. I seem to know when a storm is coming before it hits.

When i was younger, I had a lot of food triggers, but these seem to have got a lot better as i've got older. Chocolate, coffee, cheese all used to be triggers.

I'm aura too. Stress, tiredness, white wine and, I discovered last night , chocolate. I had thought I was safe with that.

I am newly diagnosed, can I ask some questions....?

I have been prescribed sumatriptans, but also find migraleve works ok. I woke up at 3am last night having guzzled dark choc while watching Lewis, and took 2 migraleve pinks.

I find that they allow me to function, ie stand up, drive, MN, oh and work, but eg this morning and right now I am in pain, and it will tend to last 4-5 hours til it subsides. I don't think of this as a migraine, as a fully blown one will knock me horizontal and also make me sick, but I take it this is the best I can hope for-diverting a migraine as soon as I feel one come on and then dealing with the aftermath.

I suppose that's a long winded way of asking whether there are any amazing treatments out there that I haven't been told about that will stop all the symptoms in their tracks?

For me it is exercising too strenuously - seems my body has a limit - was getting about one a month - so not bad and liveable with. Mine were centred around pressure behind my eyes, I always got and aura and my eyeballs physically hurt like bad flu. They made me feel very sick too. On advice from the consultant at the headache clinic, I now take 75-150mg of soluble aspirin just before I go for a big run - not had a migraine since I started doing it about 10 months ago so it has totally worked for me (fingers crossed I've not jinxed it!)

BitchyDragons thanks, I'm definitely going to make them prescribe me something more than a painkiller if they don't go away. I've only been to the doctor about them a handful of times, because I always assumed they were hormonal and there was nothing I could do about them. The dr took me off the combined pill and left it at that, then I went back when they didn't stop and they prescribed me the migraleve and told me to try ice packs and dark rooms. But it's not the pain that's the issue so much as the sickness/flashing lights/numbess etc.

I used to get them more frequently when I was younger (from about age 8, once a week-ish) but they were over within an hour or two. Now I suffer from hemiplegic migraines - left arm and leg goes numb, slurred speech, and what I can say makes no sense usually! Horrible, people think I'm having a stroke :/

Usually triggered by stress, lack of sleep, oranges, and dehydration, though occasionally one will turn up just to be annoying. Thankfully only one every couple of months now.

I get bad migraines that last days even with a perscription and my triggers are, under or over sleeping, stress, skipping meals, ignoring the start of a headache (if I don't catch them when they start they blow up and make me really ill), caffeine, bright sunshine, certain wines and a change in atmospheric pressure.

Yes dehydration! Can anyone tell me if they've ever had migraines when you see things like your looking through a heat sensor camera? I've had those very rarely and I can't stand up properly or walk and I feel like my head is in a vice just curious really as to if anyone else has had this? Thanks.

I don't know if what I get are migraines. They don't seem severe enough (as people always say that you can't carry on, would have to lie down in a dark room if it really was a migraine) and generally I can carry on as normal. I am not extra brave, they're just not usually that bad.

They are different from normal headaches though, because they are always round one eye (the same eye every time!)

MildlyMiserable, can I ask-how did you find out about the blood pressure thing, your GP I presume? I have very low bp (not dangerously so) and find that v interesting. How exactly did you up your salt intake? Under advice I guess?

1. Hormones. The week before my period is a danger time2. Red wine3. Coffee3. Sugar4. Stress. But not current stress, post stress so I can guarantee a cluster migraines after exams for example

I'm now, after many years, on a drug regime that works (mostly). At the first hint I take anti-inflammatories followed by a paracetamol/coedine mix. The drug side effect is sometimes almost as bad as the migraine so I do my best to avoid the coedine if possible. I'm left even more sluggish and incoherent than normal. I also have extremely sensitive skin on my face both before they come on and the day after a migraine. It's one of the reasons I wear contact lenses rather than glasses now.

The really bad ones are the ones that take hold while I'm asleep and can't catch them starting.